Improvement in packing cans for transportation



NITED STATES PATENT- OEEICE.

JAMES F. DRUMMOND, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO OHAS. Ti REY- NOLDS,FREDK. W. DEVOE, AND CHARLES PRATT, ALL OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKING CANS FOR-TRANSPORTATION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,547, dated February25, 1862.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, JAMES F. DEUMMOND, of the city, county, and State.of New York, have invented-a new and Improved lVIode of Packing Cans forTransportation; and I do hereby declare that the following is a ful/l,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had totheaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whicli-Figure l is a vertical section of a box having a can fitted Within itaccording to my invention; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same withthe cover removed. Y

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The object of this invention is to pack ordinary cylindrical sheet-metalcans-such as are used for holding turpentine, oil, varnishes, Src-,insuch a manner that the whole weight of the cans and contents will befirmly held and sustained at the extremities of the cans, which aretheir strongest portions, while the sides or bodies of the cans, whichare their weakest portions, are prevented from moving or coming incontact with each other o1` with any other substance, all indentation,weakening, and leakage ofthe cans during transportation being thusprevented.

A well-known mode of packing has been to have square or quadrilateralcans constructed so that they maybe closely tted within their caseswithout any filling or packing. This mode, however, although economizingsomewhat in space and reducing the cost of transportation, in a slightdegree, is attended with the loss of the cans,y so far as after use isconcerned, as painters, varnishers, Sto., cannot use them as portable orhand vessels. Another objection to this mode is that, under the roughhandling which the boxes undergo in transportation, the cans are causedto jam and grind against each other, their sides become bent in, and theseams are weakened and soon break, when leakage takes place. The samedifficulty -attends th'e transportation of paintcans where fillings orpackings are used between the cans.

Owing tol the great weight of prepared paints, due to thense of lead, itis almost impossible to pack the cans with fillings and transport themfor long distances without more These cans are of cylindrical form-suchas are generally made for holding oils, turpentine,` varnishes, &c.-andeach is provided with a bail'or handle, O. A

In the inner surface of the bottom a of the box there are made a seriesof circular recesses, b, of sufficient diameter to receive the bottoms aof the cans B, and in the under surface of the lid c of the box thereare made a series of circular recesses, d, the latter being ofsufficient diameter to receive the tops b of the cans. The recesses dare directly over and coincide with the recesses b in the bottom a ofthe box, as will be fully understood by referring to Fig. l.

Vhen the lid c is secured to the box A, the cans B are firmly secured inposition'7 as will be clearly seen by referring to Fig. 1, all lateralmovement is prevented, and by having the tops of the cans in contactwith the tops of the recesses d in the lid c no vertical play ormovement will be allowed, and the cans will be supported and heldexclusively by their ends, and all contact at their sides, and

consequently all injury thereto by indenta- JAS. F. DRUMMOND.

Witnesses:

RrcrrAEnsoN GAwLEY, .IAMEs LAIRD.

